Hello and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks, a weekly series hosted by Wandering Through the Shelves where you share three movies to fit the theme of the week each Thursday.
This week we are traveling to Europe - well, I actually live there/here, but let's move on - and we are going in a pretty cold part of it, Scandinavia. Assuming that Danish qualifies as Scandinavian language, here's my picks, and they are in three different languages.
The Hunt (2012) - Danish
The life of Kindergarten teacher Lucas slowly starts to fall into pieces as he is wrongly accused of molesting one of the kids at the school. This is a film with a capital F. A strongly gripping, dramatic, provocative and moving film on human condition. It should have won the Oscar.
You, the Living (2007) - Swedish
The lives of people struggling with loneliness and anxiety and caged in unsatisfactory lives intertwine in a Swedish city. The best of Andersson's trilogy, this is beautiful, poetic film about humanity that has no real plot but whose characters, even though most of them are nameless, have a story to tell. And it's quite funny and finds humour in quite absurds situations.
Elling (2002) - Norwegian
After his mother died, Elling ends up in a psychiatric institution where he befriends Kjell. After two years, the two friends are released from the hospital, but living in the world is not easy in their condition. This is a brilliant, uplifting comedy on mental illness as well as a touching story of you insane men trying to live a normal life.
I've had You,the Living on my shelf for years! I want to watch it but just haven't done so yet. Always reading good things about it so that's good. The hunt was one I missed at the cinema and saved to watch. I've also picked a film from different countries - so much choice from Sweden but can't think of any for Finland!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on The Hunt, definitely should have won the Oscar. I really want to see You, the Living along with Pigeon, have you seen that one?
ReplyDeleteI have not seen any of these films...I sorely lack knowledge in these flicks. The first one sounds like an excellent one to see
ReplyDeleteI haven't heard of the other two, but The Hunt was a great film!
ReplyDeleteThe Hunt is an amazing film, and I agree with you. It should have won the Oscar. Haven't heard of the other two, but You, the Living (2007) sounds like me thing.
ReplyDeleteI also chose The Hunt and agree it should've won the Oscar. I LOVE Elling too, what a great little film.
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